Klasea centauroides(L.) Cass. ex Kitag.

WFO wfo-0000008469 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Klasea centauroides, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-13 / obs. 158455362

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
259594
Filed as
Klasea centauroides subsp. komarovii (Iljin) L.Martins
Det. by
L. Martins 2010-01-01
Collected
D. I. Litvinov 1902-08-09
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Where it actually grows measured, from 642 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -30.6 °C -26.2 °C -21.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.3 °C 23.9 °C 25.7 °C
Annual rainfall 236 mm 330 mm 434 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 7 mm 12 mm 31 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 642 research-grade observations of Klasea centauroides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.